[HNA] Honduras: Indigenous and Popular Resistance to the Military Coup

Rodolfo Fasquelle Pastor rpastor at fas.harvard.edu
Tue Oct 20 06:53:49 PDT 2009


I teach a class from 12 to 1 pm, but I will be there at 1:10 if you allow me lo
listen to the latter part of the discussion and with a couple of sugestions for
coooperating with the DRCLA in the organization of a "Honduras Day"


Quoting Komala Ramachandra <kfiesta at gmail.com>:

> Honduras: Indigenous and Popular Resistance to the Military Coup. A talk by
> Grahame Russell of Rights Action
>
> October 22, 2009
>
> 12pm – 1:30pm
>
> Location: Hauser Hall 103, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
>
> Sponsored by HLS Advocates for Human Rights and La Alianza
>
>
> Building on 11 years of work in Honduras, Rights Action is working in
> support of the pro-democracy movement of the Honduran people.  On June 28,
> the Honduran military, in collusion with Honduran economic and political
> elites, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, and the media, overthrew the
> democratically elected government of President Mel Zelaya.  Since that date,
> a massive movement of the Honduran people has come together to peacefully
> restore democracy to their country.
>
>
> Since the coup, Rights Action staff have been in Honduras, channeling
> emergency funds to victims of the repression; reporting daily on the
> pro-democracy movement and the repression; and providing accompaniment for
> Hondurans at risk of repression for their participation in the pro-democracy
> movement.
>
>
> Grahame Russell, co-director of Rights Action, will be addressing these and
> other issues during his lunchtime presentation.
>
>
> Dessert will be provided. Contact Komala (kramachandra at law.harvard.edu) if
> you have any questions.
>








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